Performance-define Vs. global vars

[R. Rajesh Jeba Anbiah]

I'm interested to know which one is better--define or global variables
especially for config stuffs.
For example, osCommerce use something like: define('db_user', 'xx');
whereas phpMyAdmin uses like $config['server']['host'] =
'localhost';
and other few software use $db_pass = 'foo';

I'm much interested to know which one is good. Isn't hash array
like $config['server']['host'] overkill? TIA

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[Chung Leong]

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I'm interested to know which one is better--define or global variables
especially for config stuffs.
For example, osCommerce use something like: define('db_user', 'xx');
whereas phpMyAdmin uses like $config['server']['host'] =
'localhost';
and other few software use $db_pass = 'foo';

I'm much interested to know which one is good. Isn't hash array
like $config['server']['host'] overkill? TIA

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Using define is a little better, since you don't run the risk of the
configuration being tampered with even if your application is running on a
server with register_globals turned on. Having said that, I must say that I
usually use $NAME, so that I can interpolate the value into strings.

In regards to performance, getting a constant should be quicker in theory,
since there's no need to resolve variable scope. The difference is hardly
something that you would lose sleep over though.

[R. Rajesh Jeba Anbiah]

"Chung Leong" <ch***********@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:<eq********************@comcast.com>...

I'm interested to know which one is better--define or global variables
especially for config stuffs.
For example, osCommerce use something like: define('db_user', 'xx');
whereas phpMyAdmin uses like $config['server']['host'] =
'localhost';
and other few software use $db_pass = 'foo';

I'm much interested to know which one is good. Isn't hash array
like $config['server']['host'] overkill? TIA

Using define is a little better, since you don't run the risk of the
configuration being tampered with even if your application is running on a
server with register_globals turned on. Having said that, I must say that I
usually use $NAME, so that I can interpolate the value into strings.

In regards to performance, getting a constant should be quicker in theory,
since there's no need to resolve variable scope. The difference is hardly
something that you would lose sleep over though.

Thanks Chung, for your wonderful comments and thoughts.

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